The Very Best of Etta James: The Chess Singles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  All I Could Do Was Cry
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• 2
  If I Can't Have You

  Etta James with Harvey Fuqua
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 3
  My Dearest Darling
  3:04
• 4
  Spoonful
  2:48
• 5
  At Last
  3:01
  4.5 ★
• 6
  I Just Want to Make Love to You
  3:08
• 7
  Trust in Me
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Fool That I Am
  2:59
• 9
  Don't Cry Baby
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 10
  A Sunday Kind of Love
  3:18
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Something's Got a Hold on Me
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Waiting for Charlie (to Come Home)
  2:07
• 13
  Stop the Wedding
  2:53
• 14
  Next Door to the Blues
  2:49
• 15
  Would It Make Any Difference to You
  2:39
• 16
  In My Diary
  2:36
• 17
  Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
  3:07
• 18
  These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
  4:00
• CD 2
• 1
  Pushover
  2:57
• 2
  Pay Back
  2:40
• 3
  Two Sides (to Every Story)
  3:03
• 4
  Baby What You Want Me to Do
  4:20
• 5
  Lovin' You More Every Day
  3:24
• 6
  Breaking Point
  2:26
• 7
  Bobby Is His Name
  3:31
• 8
  Do I Make Myself Clear

  Etta James with Sugar Pie DeSanto
  3:00
• 9
  Only Time Will Tell
  3:24
• 10
  In the Basement, Part One

  Etta James with Sugar Pie DeSanto
  2:24
• 11
  I Prefer You
  3:06
• 12
  It Must Be Your Love
  2:57
• 13
  842-3089 (Call My Name)
  3:00
• 14
  I'd Rather Go Blind
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Tell Mama
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Wish Someone Would Care
  2:37
• 17
  Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
  3:00
• 18
  Light My Fire
  2:53
• CD 3
• 1
  Security
  2:30
• 2
  I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
  2:35
• 3
  I Worship the Ground You Walk On
  2:26
• 4
  You Got It
  2:26
• 5
  I Got You Babe
  2:28
• 6
  Almost Persuaded
  3:22
• 7
  Miss Pitiful
  2:22
• 8
  Tighten Up Your Own Thing
  2:41
• 9
  Loser's Weepers, Part One
  3:00
• 10
  I Found a Love
  3:27
• 11
  Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing
  3:37
• 12
  W.O.M.A.N.
  3:15
  1.0 ★
• 13
  All the Way Down
  5:35
• 14
  You Can Leave Your Hat On
  3:24
• 15
  Out on the Street Again
  4:19
• 16
  Lovin' Arms
  3:48
• 17
  Never My Love
  3:51

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Release credits

• Aaron Varnell
  saxophone [3.1, 2.14-15]
• Al Duncan
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Albert Lowe Jr.
  guitar [2.14-15, 3.1]
• Barry Beckett
  organ [1]
• Billy Davis
  producer [10]
• Carl Banks
  organ [14-15]
• Charles Chalmers
  saxophone [2.14-15, 3.1]
• David Hood
  bass [1], electric bass guitar [14-15]
• Etta James
  lead vocals [1.1-5, 1.7-11, 1.13, 3.1, 3.3-6, 2.1, 2.14-15], vocal [2.10, 1.3, 1.7-12, 1.14-15]
• Floyd Newman
  saxophone [14-15]
• Gene “Bowlegs” Miller
  trumpet [3.1, 2.14-15]
• George Davis
  piano [1]
• Harvey Fuqua
  lead vocals [2, 4], performer [4]
• James Mitchell
  saxophone [1]
• Jimmy Johnson
  guitar [2.14-15, 3.1]
• John Young
  piano [11]
• Leonard & Phil Chess
  producer [3, 5, 7, 10]
• Leonard Chess
  producer [1-5, 7-10]
• Matt Murphy
  guitar [11]
• Phil Chess
  producer [1-5, 7-10]
• Reggie Boyd
  bass guitar [11]
• Rick Hall
  arranger [2.14-15, 3.1, 3.3-6], producer [2.14-15, 3.1, 3.3-6], recording [2.14-15, 3.1, 3.3-6]
• Riley Hampton
  arranger [1-5, 7-10], conductor [1-5, 7-10]
• Riley Hampton Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-5, 7-10]
• Roger Hawkins
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 2.14-15]
• Spooner Oldham
  organ [14-15], piano [14-15]
• Sugar Pie DeSanto
  performer [2.8, 2.10, 1.10], vocal [10]
• [unknown]
  background vocals [11], instrument [10]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of Etta James: The Chess Singles

  3x CD
  May 2005